The countdown for the historical presidential elections in Syria began with the Syrians being hopeful that these elections will save the country from the ongoing war and establish a new national political era that perpetuates political pluralism in the country.

Syria's sovereign decision to hold presidential elections on time reflects the Syrian people's determination to uproot terrorism from their homeland, restore security and stability to the country, reconstruct what the armed terrorist groups had damaged and build Syria on stronger democratic bases; democratic bases that are absent in many countries, mainly the Gulf ones, which have been conspiring and participating in shedding the Syrian blood.

One week before the local elections in Turkey, March 30th, a Turkish F16 shot down a Syrian Mig 23 accusing the Syrian side of penetrating Turkish airspace while the Syrian jet came down in Syrian territory and, luckily, the surviving pilot clearly stated that he was shot down on the Syrian side of the border. 

Even when hypothetically the Syrian jet crossed for seconds Turkish airspace the Turkish jets could easily escort him out as from a military point of view there is and was not a single reason to shoot the jet down.

So if there is no military reason, the hostile act of bringing a Syrian jet down must be looked at from a political angle.

The former US Ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, laid most of the blame for the crisis in Syria at the Government of Syria! Liar, liar and the liarest- coined just for Ford- of all.  Ford himself is to be blamed for his uncalculated and reckless interference in Syrians' domestic affairs. Still in the memory his childish trips to Hama and reckless statements regarding the crisis since its onset! Ford didn't assume his diplomatic career as it should be, if not to strengthen his country's relations with Syria, at least to downgrade tensions.

The Christian Science Monitor quoted Ford as saying: “You have one Al Qaeda faction fighting another Al Qaeda faction. That’s how fractured this is. One sharp sliver fighting another sharp sliver,”. Ford didn't have the courage to declare that his country has been the driving force behind all Al Qaeda affiliates. Yes, this is what it is. Al Qaeda has been mushroomed and invented by the USA in Afghanistan first as to encounter the then Soviet Union.

Ford, according to the daily, placed the blame for the failure of two rounds of peace talks in Geneva squarely on the regime; "100 percent the fault of Jaafari,” ! Liar, liar and the most liar  ever! The Syrian official delegation, comprising the elite and most veteran Syrian diplomats and media men, went to Geneva in good faith as to press forward for a political solution starting with the halting of violence and terrorism. The failure was mainly because of Ford and his handpicked yes-half-men. The so called opposition, representing only the anti-Syrians with their petrodollars and weapons of killings, rejected every official Syrian proposal, even those pertaining to the existence and essence of the Syrian Arab Republic. It was Ford himself leading and dictating the characterless coalition of one-colored tasteless delegation.

"Assad’s Alawite support base is much shakier than it appears," Ford added according to the daily. Mr. Ambassador,  you are crazy and distanced from the reality. You don't understand the real Islam, perhaps the only non-Islam you know about is the Wahabi brand of treason, blood and swords. Alawite, as a word,  is derived from Ali, Prophet Muhammad's cousin. Thus, all Moslems who indeed respect Prophet Muhammad should respect Ali and every Moslem is naturally an Alawite. This is the logic of things, because being anti-Alawite means being anti-God, anti-Islam, anti-Prophet. We are all Alawite Syrians defending our Syria against your hired killers for decades Mr. Ambassador, not only for these three years.  The USA is indeed powerful in killing, occupation, destruction. It, however, failed to kill our national Arab Resistant Syrianity, and failed  to destroy our deep-rooted attachment and umbilical cord to our leadership, namely to the late Hafez Al-Assad, especially during the US backed Moslem Brotherhood wave of terrorism,  and our custodian family member Bashar Al-Assad.

 “The Syrian opposition itself has done a miserable job distinguishing itself from the Al Qaeda elements. There are some really bad people in Syria right now, on the opposition side.'' Good Ford, Yes the mentioned bad people are yours of the non-Syrians, paid-for and sponsored by  your slaves in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey  and the like; they are the wahabi cannibals of more than 85 countries worldwide.

''The US relationship with the opposition’s armed groups has deepened.'' Added Ford! Yes, this is a well-known fact for the majority and this is in itself the main reason for the killing of the Syrians and for prolonging the crisis. The Ambassador who takes pride in such a bloody relationship is a mafia boss not an ambassador.

 “I think the Iranians would have been saying to them in private, ‘Hold fast. Make no concessions. We’re with you.’ I don’t think we lost anything,” Ford said, Yes the Iranians are our real brothers and not the ewes among Arabs who are good only in killing our people and raping our women in the camps of beggary and shame! Iran stands firm beside the oppressed and would never allow the Takfiri extremists to slaughter the Syrians. Thanks indeed to Iran, Russia and China for their unwavering support to the Syrians' legitimate right to life and resistance against terrorism and occupation.

"But President Obama is not afraid of using military force," Ford asserts. And we the Syrians are never afraid of further US follies. The Afghanis, Vietnamese, Iraqis aren't more daring and courageous than the Syrians, and Iranians. The first to pay the heaviest price for such a folly is surely to be the spoiled child of the USA, Israel, whose leaders have lost their reason through  alliances with the Takfiri wahabi terrorists! Who know nothing but slaughter, throat-cuttings, beheadings and the like!

"Assad has assured the Syrians that he will run in presidential elections scheduled for June. That can’t happen," Ford said. You fool! H.E. President Al-Assad has never been one of your puppets and that is why you are waging a merciless war against his country. It is the majority of the Syrians who are ready to die for Assad, who has been the real safety, pride, honor, defender and guru for them. The Syrians have already taken their final decision to nominate Assad for the coming elections and before he himself ''assured the Syrians'', another US lie. The USA and its puppets and slaves are afraid of the coming democratic elections because they are very sure that Mr. Assad is to win the sliding majority of the votes, even those votes of some Syrians who were before the crisis unwilling to vote for him. Ford, the crisis in Syria, mainly caused and inflamed by your countries, has indeed increased the popularity of Mr. Assad. Any respectable poll study would definitely place Mr. Assad second to none worldwide as the most admired, loved, patriot and successful leader worldwide.

''The state is “little by little collapsing.” It lacks the manpower to take back places like Raqaa province and Deir al-Zour, or the Kurdish north. …The most likely end game? De-facto cantons, some of them controlled by local armed factions, concluded Ford! No, Syria is on the road of reconciliation and reconstruction. You , Ford, are a failure and have failed in destroying Syria, controlled only by the Syrians and their hero Army and security, defense forces. Be sure, Ford, once your country and the ewes refrain from their dirty terrorist games and ploys, Syria is to get rid of the ongoing crisis.

Dr. Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim 

A soon political settlement in Syria seems difficult amid incessant attempts by western and regional powers to abort what is seen as international effort to end the crisis in Syria and in the light of the recent decision of the US Congress to arm what it called "moderate opposition" in Syria.

The recently-held Geneva 2 conference was seen as an opportunity for Syrian parties, both government and "opposition", to discuss all crisis-related issues and prepare a common ground for the solution, particularly as the Syrian official delegation was ready and open to discuss everything in the light of the Geneva I communiqué.  But, what actually happened during the conference was shameful to a disgusting degree, as statements by delegations of some participating countries; mainly the United States, Saudi Arabia, France and Turkey in addition to that of the delegation of the so-called "opposition coalition" were so aggressive to Syria, biased and had nothing to do with political solution, the core issue of Geneva 2.

The US administration, even before the end of the first round of Geneva 2 talks, shamelessly, decided to resume arming the terrorist groups with much more sophisticated weapons than before. This blatant, but not surprising, double standard policy by the US, the "cosponsor" of the peace initiative called "Geneva 2", has unfortunately been adopted under the complete silence of the international community, which is meant to push peace efforts.

The content, timing and quick implementation of the US decision-(the first arms shipments arrived in Jordan two days ago and have become at the disposal of the already trained terrorists) - is a clear-cut evidence that Obama's administration has made a new deal with Saudi Arabia aiming to undermine political solution in Syria and urge the armed terrorist takfiri groups to carry on their criminal acts against the Syrian state and people.

The Saudi complete support for takfiri Wahabi terrorists won't stop even a Geneva 3 or Geneva 4 is held, because the kingdom's mad war in Syria is that of bone breaking. The Saudis know well that Geneva conferences won't help the kingdom achieve its hoped-for goal in Syria which has been the toppling of the "regime". They also realize that Geneva conferences on Syria won't be ceremonies to hand power over to their tools represented in the so-called "opposition coalition", which was described by Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minster Faysal al-Mikdad as a group of agents serving the agendas of foreign powers.

The US decision to arm terrorist gangs can only be interpreted as an American coup on political solution in Syria that goes in harmony with the Saudi willing to continue shedding the Syrians' blood and destroying the Syrian state in implementation of the Zionist-Saudi scheme in the region. The US administration sees in its decision a great opportunity for political blackmailing through benefitting from the dissemination of the Wahhabi takfiri thinking in the country to serve its goals in the region.

Thus, the process of reproducing al-Qaeda–affiliated groups in one American-armed and Saudi-sponsored organization called the "Islamic Front" is a desperate attempt by anti-Syria forces to change the balance of powers on ground in the country, thinking falsely that by doing this they will be able to impose political conditions in possibly coming Geneva conferences.

The Geneva 2 results and the US behavior didn't frustrate the Syrians or shock them, because they knew beforehand that solutions can't be made abroad under the supervision of historically colonialist powers and terrorism sponsors. They are aware that only national dialogue among the Syrians under the homeland's umbrella is the guarantee of peaceful political settlement that preserves Syria's unity and sovereignty.

Until a true international will to fight terrorism and dry its sources is evident, the Syrian Arab Army hand in hand with the steadfast peace-loving Syrian people will carry on the battle to eradicate terrorism nationwide with firm and strong determination and will keep eying a better Syria to all the Syrians.

H. Mustafa    

During the opening session of the Geneva 2 conference, it was crystal clear that some states were working to abort the event and make killing, destruction and terrorist acts continue in Syria. In fact, these states do not want the crisis in Syria to be resolved peacefully. Rather, they want devastation to continue until they become able to impose their agenda on Syria and the region as a whole to meet the colonialist interests. The US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which have failed even to bring a tiny part of the so-called “opposition”, wanted to blow up this conference after they had felt being lost caused by the puppets they sent for negotiations. The delegation of the opposition that participated in the conference does not represent all the spectrums of the opposition, the majority of the opposition’s figures were absent, persons were invited on short notice with the aim of not leaving vacant chairs by order of the US and its allies believing the conference would achieve their sinister objectives . But Syria’s official delegation remained in Geneva and exerted  every possible effort to make the conference a success despite the provocative statements made by the US, Saudi and Turkish foreign ministers who stepped up escalation against Syria with the aim of prolonging the crisis and increasing the sufferings of the Syrian people. The representatives of the US, France, Britain, Turkey and Saudi Arabia spoke like war criminals during the opening session.  The speeches delivered by the US foreign secretary and his followers contained a mix of untrue and unrealistic information contradicting facts on the ground. Some of the speeches delivered seemed as if those who delivered them are ambassadors of terrorist organizations, not states or governments. They must be held accountable as war criminals because they are the ones who provided funds and weapons currently being used by the armed terrorist groups in Syria to slaughter the Syrian people and destroy their public and private properties. Kerry and his ilk delivered speeches that included flagrant intervention in Syria’s internal affairs claiming that Geneva 1 provides for handing power to lackeys and puppets appointed by Ford and his ilk.

The Syrian official delegation came to Geneva for the sake of their country, people and to stop terrorism, bloodshed through a political track that would be determined by the Syrians themselves. The Syrian stance to participate in the Geneva2 conference is consistent with the political choice of the Syrian state since the beginning of the crisis which views that the political solution is the only solution which is determined by the Syrians themselves away from any foreign intervention or diktat.

The Syrian delegation came to Geneva to represent the Syrian government and before that they have a popular authorization from the majority of the Syrian people as to defend their country, preserve its sovereignty, stop the bloodshed and carry out reconstruction process to rebuild what have been destroyed by the armed terrorist groups. But the so-called coalition opposition came to Geneva taking instructions from the former US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford whose suspicious role in the crisis in Syria became known to everyone, especially the death squads he contributed to bring to Syria to take part in killing Syrians and destroy the infrastructure.  For this reason, confusion and subordination continue to prevail among the so-called coalition delegation, and the formation of this delegation continued to change even before the start of the talks. Directed by Ford, members of the so-called opposition delegation have been making provocative statements to abort the conference. But their attempt failed and was disclosed before the world public opinion.

K.Q.